The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-12-30

who CouId soc Through = Mans Head
And Predict Bis Death.

do i believe IN clairvoyants?'' said
i well known citizen of Railway, for
merly a medical student, recently. II
cannot say that I do, but / was once
simost ready to believe in them. In
the year 1916 the building at the
southeast corner OF Barclay and
Church streets, New York, which is
now a factory, was occupied as a pri-
Fate boarding house. AS the location
suited my convenience, ] engaged q
room there, and took possession of it
one Saturday about the middle Of
january. Among my fellow-boarders
was DR.. Hathaway, q surgeon OF the
United States army, who had been on
i duty ab the ihospitai On 5ttsftteTi i5iaIid.
During my first evening at the house q
Young lady visitor was present, who
was introduced to me simply as Mary.
She was blind. I had listened but q
short time to Recommendations of those
people before i learned that they were
almost monomaniacs on the subject
of mesmerism, and Iafterward learned
chat the bling girl Mary was q clairvoy
ant subject Of DIR. LIE Grand, a well
known French physician, who professed
TO cure diseases by mesmerism.
Before retiring that night ] went
out to a restaurant in Park Row fora
plate Of oysters. When / returned toI
the boarding house, having been gone
q little over half an hour, the front
door, which / had carefully fastened
was wide open, lights were glancinlI
about, and there were sounds of conf
fusion in the upper part of the house.
/ was told thatDr. Hathaway hadh had
q fit, and that DIR. Van Duren, DIR. Par
ker and another physician whosename
I can not recall, had been sent for and
were in attendance. Finding / could
be of no service, / went to bed, and
next morning the landlady informed
me that the Doctors fit was a slight
attack Of apoplexy, unaccompanied
with paralysis, and that he would
probably be all right in a few days.
He WAS not all right, however; either
In a few days or a few weeks.
Before the end of the month NOV
ed uptown, but about the latter part
of March, having business downtown,
I called at my old boarding place. J.
found DR.. Hathaway seated in his
/ EOOAA III I'LL ilN ctAA4 NltttA A4OH 1NANO
cheerful, but apparently not ailing
much, although he complained Of a
slight pain in the rightside Of his head.
AS / was leaving the house the land
lady drew ME into her reem and ask
ed Iae what / thought of DR.. Hatha-
way S case. My reply was: THE Doc
tor Is doing well. If he win get out
and take moderate exercise he will
soon be entirely well.
"She shook her head mournfully,
and said. He will neyerget out again.
He viii never leave that room alive
HsWhat reason have you for such q
melancholy supposition?' asked.
"sMary says so.
"fWhat! Has Mary been Tighten
ing you with ner fuIDEnery 1 asKeu.
mo; Mary has not been in the
house since the night you met her here"
she replied. AT DR.. Hathaway's re-
quest / went to consult her at DIR. lie
Grand's Office. She went into atrance
and examined DIR. Hathaway. She
says that the inside of the skull, on
the right side, is all sore and liberated,
and that there are three Jumps on the
right side OF his brain as lssyga as hick-
Dry nuts; that he win neverget over it;
that it will ali be over with him by the
LIST of May, and that you viii be pres
enU atthe post norton examination
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"'What suggested such an idea as
that2"
"Idon't know. Shesometimes takes
great interest in strangers she casually
meets. She knows q great deal about
your future
GThe fortune telling eharlatan.', /
thought. OF course | was a trit1e too
polite to express my opinion aloud,
and after a few commonplace remarks
took my leave.
"Duringthe next monthmy mind was
otherwise. SO much occupied that / a-
most entirely forgot the afflicted phy-
sician; but on the last day Of April,
when I sat down to my dinner, / was
startled to find on my plate a note an
nouncing DR.. Hathaway's death, and
inviting me to be present at d post
norton examination at 10 o'clock
next morning. When / entered the
death chamber at the appointed hour
Hound several eminent physicians and
! SuIEcOuS lnSrc. IT. NApnESg
who was then demonstration Of anat.
omy at the university 81 New York,
was conducting the autopsy: When
the top of the Uranium was removed
from the brain, and handed aroundfor
inspection what was my surprise tosee
that the lining membrane on the right
side had been extensively inlamed,
exactly as the blind clairyoyant had
described, and turther, upon cutting
into the substance Of the brain on the
right side, three large tubercles were
found, d rare and remarkable patho-
logical condition.
THAT was very remarkable.
Eyes, but at the funeral / CHANGED
to ride in the same carriage With q rel
| atiye Of the deceased, who told
me that q sister ofDr. Hathaway had